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Show CORN PRICES ADVANCE IN . PAST WEEK i i CHICAGO, Dec. 2S Acute scarcity" of immediate supplies has forced a big bulge in the corn market this week, i although most of the price effects have I been confined to nearby deliveries. Compared with a week ago. ."corn quo-, quo-, tations this morning varied from unchanged un-changed figures to 10c advance( oats were off 7f?;2 to 2-ic and provisions 1 ranging froin 90c decline to a rise or 10c. ; Nearly continuous stormy, weather that interfered with shelling and with i wagon traffic had a good deal to do with the meagerncss of the movement !of corn to market with tho fact that stocks were down close to the vanishing: vanish-ing: point. An additional reason, however, how-ever, lay in the fact that the surplus states this year had produced 150.-000.000 150.-000.000 bushels less than the a'verage. On tho other hand, assertions that feeding demand had passed the climax cli-max Ipnded to check bullish sentiment in regard to options later than January. Jan-uary. Oats lack support notwithstanding the strength of corn. Most of the time shipping call was slack, especially especial-ly from tlie seaboard. Provisions were heavy owing to the continued excessive offerings of hogs, but were partly sustained by knowledge know-ledge of foreign need of meatsv and fats and by gossip that the February average price of hogs would remain at $17.50. |